Exonaut Defence Platform

Planning & Programming

Exonaut Planning & Programming enables defence organisations to effectively plan, coordinate, and manage complex training programmes and activities, aligning operational objectives with readiness requirements.

Design, Coordinate, and Manage complex Training Programmes and Activities

Exonaut comes with a host of capabilities designed to empower users and enhance planning and programming capabilities. AI-supported planning, data assurance, global resource management, and real-time adaptability, form part of the unified solution which supports distributed working, simplifies and streamlines planning, enhances collaboration, and improves agility.

The software ensures that defence planners can optimise resources, respond dynamically to evolving requirements or training risk, and create effective, data-driven programmes that prepare forces for current and future challenges.

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NATO exercise planning

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Common planning and programming challenges

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Allocation

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Engagement

Fragmented planning and coordination

Complex training programmes often involve diverse and disparate planning teams trying to access a shared vision. Planners often don’t use all relevant data if it is siloed in different tools, which leads to inefficiencies and poor data utilisation. Additionally, coordination across schedules, resources, and objectives becomes time-consuming and often results in misalignment

Adapting to changing requirements

It’s difficult to adjust plans quickly based on evolving threats, training risk, forecasted preparedness or command direction in multiple tools if information isn’t centralised. In many cases, it must be done manually which delays response times, preventing quick alignment of objectives and activities.

Effective resource allocation

Limited resources require accurate management, but current methods often result in conflicts of use or underutilisation. Automating this will ensure resources are allocated efficiently with minimal manual intervention.

Translating direction to execution

Translating higher-level command intent into specific, actionable plans is a persistent challenge for defence organisations. Planners need a seamless way to map command intent into a sequence of activities and tactical events that align with operational demands.

Adapting to dynamic conditions to steer exercise direction

To get the most from an exercise, Command often needs to adjust scenarios and tasks during an event in response to real-time developments. However, existing systems often lack the flexibility for these dynamic changes.

Stakeholder engagement

Preparing briefings and maintaining consistent stakeholder updates is a labour-intensive process that can be neglected, or shortcuts taken, particularly when data is spread across various systems and formats.

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Coordinated planning and streamlined work through automated processes

All planning data is stored centrally, ensuring that distributed planners work on a single version of truth for coordinating schedules, units, resources, objectives, programmes and activities. Automated processes streamline work, minimising administrative tasks and manual errors and allowing teams to focus on strategy.

AI-supported exercise design reduces workload

The AI co-pilot supports planners by providing data-driven suggestions for programme and activity planning. This improves efficiency while keeping the decision-making process under human control.

Real-time activity updates increase responsiveness to events

Planners can easily update activities directly in the software to adapt to changing requirements, performance risks or future preparedness forecasts in real-time. Flexible data inputs and a drag-and-drop interface make adjusting plans faster, improving responsiveness to live and evolving direction and guidance.

Allocation tools improve resource and asset management

Tools for visualising and managing resource allocation and deconfliction ensure assets are managed and controlled effectively across multiple exercises. Planners are automatically alerted if over-allocation occurs, while conflicts can be easily resolved in the intuitive user interface.

Collaborative and AI-assisted tools ensure execution aligns with strategy

Exonaut translates high-level objectives into actionable, tactical, exercise events using AI-assisted support to map strategic goals and direction into coherent plans. Built-in collaboration tools, activity grouping, and task management boards facilitate alignment across stakeholders, facilitating mission command and ensuring everyone understands their roles and contributions.

Collaborative and AI-assisted tools ensure execution aligns with strategy

Effective communication and briefing tools

Communicating plans to stakeholders is simplified thanks to wide-ranging visualization tools, such as Gantt charts, calendars, kanban boards and maps. Automated report generation and export features (including PowerPoint) make it easy to keep all parties updated, reducing the need for manual preparation and allowing for immediate, live briefings to take place.

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Planning & Programming

Design, Coordinate, and Manage complex Training Programmes and Activities

NATO exercise planning

Common planning and programming challenges

Fragmented planning and coordination

Adapting to changing requirements

Effective resource allocation

Translating direction to execution

Adapting to dynamic conditions to steer exercise direction

Stakeholder engagement

How can Exonaut help you solve these challenges to increase readiness?

Coordinated planning and streamlined work through automated processes

AI-supported exercise design reduces workload

Real-time activity updates increase responsiveness to events

Allocation tools improve resource and asset management

Collaborative and AI-assisted tools ensure execution aligns with strategy

Collaborative and AI-assisted tools ensure execution aligns with strategy

Effective communication and briefing tools

Trusted by Military Leaders

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Read our latest case studies

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